easter is skippy's birthday!!!

Skippy is 3 years old today. He was born on Easter (or maybe late on the night before?). Easter was March 26 the year he was born, but we like to celebrate on Easter Sunday.

Happy Birthday Skippy!! He's 3 years old. What a dog. He's very special.

Skippy had a birthday Easter basket filled with plastic eggs, dog cookies, Merrick dehydrated lamb lung (!!!) and a Merrick Flossie (chewy dried beef tendon). He eat all but the eggs and then stretched out on the porch floor for a nap. Aahhh... the life of a dog....

The photos below show the nice new haircut he got on Friday at Laundromutt (by his favorite groomer, Alana).

cool blue spring water

I was admiring the bright blue of the water in the photos of the next post. The early spring sky is reflected in the water. Its a clear deep blue, in the cold crisp air, with no leaves to filter. Skippy is enjoying it. Frost described it perfectly:

Spring Pools
by Robert Frost

These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
The total sky almost without defect,
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,
And yet not out by any brook or river,
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on.
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods---
Let them think twice before they use their powers
To blot out and drink up and sweep away
These flowery waters and these watery flowers
From snow that melted only yesterday.

water dog

Beaver Brook runs through Waverly Oaks Park in Waltham MA. Its full to the brim now that all our snow has melted. Still looks pretty chilly.

sunset over the pond

The ice is off the big pond now. I'm watching closely for the trees to bud and fill with leaves. Still the branches are bare. (Fresh Pond, Cambridge MA)

snow